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Morning journal (Columbus, Ohio), 1867-05-14

Morning journal (Columbus, Ohio), 1867-05-14 page 1

nn UNA: VOL. XXIX. COLUMBUS, OHIO: TUESDAY, MAY' 14, 1867. NO. 264. JOB L. TELEGRAPHIC. j REPORTED FOR THE JOURNAL. FOREIGN NEWS. 15 V TltE ATLANTIC CABLE. King of Prussia 10 Visit Paris. , , Berlix, May 13. It is announced that the King of, Prussia will visit Paris during the summer, in company with the Emperor of Russia. IrouClad Arrived. 1 ( Cherbourg, May 13. Four iren-clads of the French fleet arrived this morning from the Gulf of Mexico. Lord Lvons Ambassador to Paris. London, May 13 Eve. Lord Lyons, formerly Minister to the United States has been appointed to succeed Earl Cowley as Amttassador of Great Britain to Paris. v ':,' ' ' " Funeral of Gov. Wright. ' . , ., , ,' Berlin, May 13, Eve. ' The funeral of the late American Minister, Gov. Wright, took place to-day, and was attended by all American residents and visitors here, aud a large number of citizens. , ' ! 31 Y STEA31E11. Extract from the Speech of the Fenian, ,i i Burke, after his Conviction. ; .. New York, May 13. The steamer City of New York, from Liverpool, via Q-.ieenstown the 2d, arrived today. . - The following U an extract from the speech of the Fenian', Burkeafter his conviction: "It is not my desire now, my Lords, to give utterance to one word against the verdict which has been pronounced upon me." But fully conscious that my honor as a man has never been impugned, I am fully conscious that I can go to my grave with a name and character unsullied." . "lean only say this: that these parties, actuated by a dejlre either for their own aggrandizement or to save their own paltry, miserable live, have pandered to the appetiteif I may so speak of Justice ; aud iny life shall be the forfeit. "Fully convinced and satisfied of the righteousness of my every act in connection with the late revolutionary movement in Ireland, I have nothing to recall ; nothing that I would not do again; nothing that would bring the blush of shame to mantle my brow. My conduct aud career, here and In America, if you like, as a soldier, are before you; and even in tills, in my hour of trial, I feel conscious of having lived an honest man, and I will die believing that if I have given my life to give freedom and liberty to the land of my birth, I have done only that which every Irishman, and every man, whose squl throbs with feelings of liberty, should do. .. "I seek hot the death of a martyr, but if It is the will of an Almighty aud Omnipotent God that my devotion for the land of my birth should be tested at the scaflbld, I am willing there to die lu defense of the right of men to be free to give the right to an oppressed people to throw off the yoke of thraldom.I nmjaii Irishman by birth, an American 'by adoption by nature a lover of freedom, and an enemy to the power that holds my native land in the bonds of tyranny. It has been so often admitted that the oppressed have n right to throw off the yoke of oppressioneven by English statesmeu that I deem it unnecessary to more than advert to the fact here. "Ireland's children are not, never were, and never will be, willing or submissive slaves, and so long as England's flag covers one inch of Irish soli so long will they believe It to be a divine right to conspire and devise means to hurl down its power and erect in its stead a God-like structure of self-government." MEXICO. l,iiU't.t Mexican cws Vera Cruz Closely HesteRedGlly of Mexico )v peeled to Capitulate. Baltimore, May 13. 1 he Sun publishes the following letter irom us special-correspondent In Havana! The English West India mall stcamar arrived from Vera Cruz on the 5th Inst., but brings neither papers nor letters.. Vera Cruz was still closely besieged bv the Liberals, who were using their only available siege piece with little effect, as1 onlv some few house had been injured, aud no lives lost. I here was no probability of the Liberals taking the city, unless the Imperial Generals should disagree among themselves, causing a surretniur. NcKness among the H-siegcr Is assuming alarming prop tioiis. Over 250 are in hospital. The City of Mexico Is invested bv Diaz, it is the luteutlou ot Marquez to defend the city ut. ull hazards The bcslcplnir force numbers ubont 13,000, and receives additions winy, i he fall of the city Is considered cer tain, as hunger will soon compel the besieged MARYLAND. " y A Falso Assertion. ' " Baltimore, May 13.',', It is now definitely usserled that no such action by the late Cleveland Hiiiimn.i r.,i.. veiitiim relative to pre-paid lrelght over the ll.ilttiimni A. IV I.. IV. il i .?. .... ,.,.........-.. . ik.uuuuii, us rvporieu in the newspapers, ever took place lu that body. The report originated in the desire of certalu parties to compel the Baltimore & Ohio Ball-road to abandon Its policy of a fast freight 'ine to the West. . washingtonspecials. Arrested on Charge of Embezzlement. ' i - ' ' New. York. May 13. The Herald's Washington special says: W. B. Marsh, President of the Bank of Lexington, N. C, ond E. D. Hampton, one of tlie Directors, were taken to Salisbury on Tuesday; by order of Gen. Sickles, under the charge of embezz'iug the specie of the bank above named, about the time of the surrender of the rebel Gen. Johnston. The complaint was made by J. W.Thomas and others. The parties have had a hearing, and the etl-dence has been forwarded to' Gen. Sickles. The accused will remain in custody of the military until the General is heard from. , ' Further from the Davli Trial. The Times' Washington special says : It is understood that the prosecuting officers have finally agreed that 1h the event of the trial of Davis being set for some future day, as is likely, he shall be discharged on his own recognizance. . The Injunction Cases False Report. The Tribune's special says the decision of the Supreme Court, in the Georgia and Mississippi injunction cases, will be given today, aud it is said the petitions will be unaa-mously dismissed. The reported execution of two Union soldiers in the Edgefield district, South Carolina, by a posse of citizens, is found, on investigation to be untrus. VIRGINIA. liossip About the Davis Trial. New York, May 13. The Times's Richmond special says : After Jett'erson Davis is re-arrested on the bench warrant, under the Norfolk indictment, the Government counsel will announce that they are not ready for trial under the indictment, and will move for the postponement of the case until the next term of the Circuit Court, which will be in No'vember. Davis's counsel will thon submit a motion to admit bail : but Judge Underwood now acts as if he will not receive bail, but will remand the prisoner to Llbby prison. Jeff. Davis Released on Bail. The United States Court was packed this morning. A military guard was placed around it, and a strong police force Inside. About twenty ladles were among the spectators ; also 50 negroes. At 11 o'clock Davis was brought In and took a seat next to the prisoner's box with Gen. Burtou and the U. S. Marshal. A servant accompanied hlra. Davis sitting by an open window, remarked "It Is a little cold, Isn't It?" and he was removed to a seat near his counsel In front of the Judge. Gen. Burton's return of the writ of haben enrptts was read, and the Judge complimented Gen. Burton in obeying the laws and relieved him of the custody of Davis, and the Marshal Immediately served on him a bench warrant to answer the Norfolk Indictment. Mr. O'Connor spoke of Mr. Davis's long Imprisonment and feeble health, ' and aske'l that he be bailed, there being no opposition on the part of the prosecution, who fixed the amount or ball at $10,000. The Judge announced his readines to accept the bail ; stating at the same time that the responsibility of delay in bringing the case into court rested upon the Government, and not upon the District Attorney. Me also said that one-half of the amount of the bail should be given by persons residing In the State or Virginia. The sureties then came forward, Horace Greeley being among the first, was followed by Mr. Schell, of N. Y., Mr. Jackson, of Philadelphia, and others. A number ot gen tlemen residing in Virginia, offered their names as bail. Mr. Davis was congratulated by several friends, but there was no demon stration or noise of any kind. After giving bail to appear at the November term of Court, Mr. Davis was then taken In a coach to the Spotts wood House. ALABAMA. Senator Wilson's Speeches lu the South. New York, May 1U. The Herald's Montgomery, Ala., special says Senator Wilson, on his trip from Atlan ta, addressed several white audiences, where he wis severely catechised about certain customs in the North, but was able to make suitable replies to all questions. On Saturday he addressed an audleucc of the usual mixed character. lie was introduced by Gen. Swaync, and in the course of his speech made no reference whatever to confiscation. He was replied to by a prominent lawyer named Clanton, formerly a rebel general, who urged, lu his argument, that the negro did not owe his freedom to the Republican party that President Lincoln had promised the rebellious South two years after the commencement of the war that their slaves would be undisturbed it they would return to the Unlou. After the speeches, Gen. Swayne called for the sense of the colored people as to who the sense ot tlie coloreu people as to who . , , , , . , .. i were Tor the Republican' party, and the Jf the I nlted States by virtue ot recent leg-response was a unanimous animation. ' carrying Into clleet he hi In r o la - MASSACHUSETTS. A Vile Scoundrel. Boston, May 13. Rev. Sercuo Howe, who for six years lins been pastor of the Baptist Church and Society In Abdlngton, has recently been detected In familiarities of the most gross and shocking charcter, with many of the children, of both sexes, belonging' to his congregation. Ho was charged with criminal practices nt a meeting of the Church on Saturday evening last. He mndeno denial. He was threatened with a rldiym a rail by the young men of the place. Howe was a member of the Legislature, and sent In his resignation to-day, which was accepted, after debate, In secret session. ' '' ; KENTUCKY. ',' " , , Death of Bishop I.avcllle.- ' ' ,'. . , , , " LonsviLLH, May 13. ' Bishop Lavclllo,' of thclRomau Catholic Church, died at Burdstown, Ky., Saturday evening, after t tong and painful Illness. Ills rcmaluswIU, arrive to-day and Ins laid in state at the. Cathedral until 3 P. M. to-morrow, when the funeral ceremonies take place. jrELKORAPU ok StOllTH TAat.) From the Memphis Tost, May 8. -' The Mass Meeting Last Night. Great Outpouring of the People to Welcome Hon. W. D. Kelley. Loyal Tennessee Kespondsto the Loyal Sentiment of the North. The Capacious Opera-IIouse Filled to Overflowing. Free Speech Maintained, and the South Indeed made Free. The largest assemblage perhaps which has met in Memphis since the war, gathered at tne Greenlaw Opera-house, last night, called together by the announcement that Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, of Philadelphia, would address his fellow-citizens of Tennessee on the political questions of the clay. In a few minutes after the doors were opened, the capacious building was filled to overflowing. Quite a number of ladies occupied seats in the dress circle. The family circle was crowded with colored persons, many of whom also were In other parts of the house, and several of them, members o; the Republican County Committee, occupied seats on the stage. A line brass baud in the balcony in front of the building, played patriotic aud stirring airs previous to the commencement of Judge Kel-ley's speech. The stage was hung with fligs, and the speaker's stand draped with a splendid star-spangled banner. Soon after 8 o'clock, Judge Kelley entered, escorted by the County Committee and other Republicans, and was greeted with applause. Hon. Barbour Lewis, Chairman of the County Committee, then Introduced Judge Kelley to the meeting. He proceeded to speak as follows : My Fellow-Citizens: I don't know which to do first, whether to congratulate you upon your enfranchisement, or to thank you for having made me free throughout the broad extent of my country. Perhaps it would be well that we should congratulate each other. You, fellow-citizens of Tennessee, have, by the terrible scourge of war,' been made free. You of the State of Tennessee, and of the United States, wearing the livery of Afrlc's burning sun, have also been made free by the terrible scourge of war ; and I, born i'u what was known as a free State, having grown to manhood there, and having enjoyed such honors as my townsmen could confer upon me, was still a bondman in my native State. I believed from my youth and upwards in the great doctrine of the Declaration of Independence. I believed for so my mother taught me from the Christian guide that all men are born equal, and should stand before the institutions of a Christian State as they stand before God, the Father of all. Applause. I believed thus, and having a will of my own to express my own thoughts, it never before was safe forme to cross the Potomac, or descend the grand river which makes your cl'.y a sure location of one of America's grandest commercial and manufacturing emporiums. This South ern clime was not healthful for men who believed as I did. It grew too many grape vines, and they had been pervcrte'l to improper purposes. But, thank God, the day has come when every American citizen can traverse his country, and carry with him, not only his truuk and his clothing, out ills conscience and his honest convictions, great applause, and express them wherever he goes. In the entoyment of this new-found right, my fellow-citizens, I have come to counsel with vou upon that greatest of all subjects, Ovr Country, and Its future welfare, and that which must promote its welfare, the guaranteeing, by proper institutions, the daily practice of a just liberty to the Individual man, consistent with the general welfare of this, our country. Our country is my theme. Two little words three little syla-bles a phrase dear to the heart of every man, whether born upon the broad and sunny savannas of the South, or upon the gran ite hills of the t-ast; among inegoiuensioj:es ot the Pacific, or amidst the most sterile spot In the world; whether born In our country, or upon the banks of the Lilly or the Shannon, the Tiber or the Po, the Rhine or any other great river; whether born upon the broad nlateau or mountain side or top, these little words, our country, arc dear to the heart of evcrv man. But to no man, born wherever he may be, in poverty or allluencc, do they signify so much ns when ntterea oy an American citizen. Our country, now free to all, what Is It? Whv.lt Is the grandest mortal heritage ever given to man. It has extended from bevond the sunny South Sen, over whose surface the summer breeze ever lingers, to that grand series or winter lakes over which the winds of March and Novem ber howl the requiem of gallant navies. And from the rock-bound Atlantic, surging ever nualnst Its coast.across to the quiet and sleenliig ocean of the West. This is all our country; and by virtue ol the Constitution cut powers of that Constitution, every man, woman and ehiul nas a personal imeixM in it nil. I A voice. " That's so." and applause. To the citizen of every other country, "Our Country" means where the man was boru and the child cradled; It means the spot where his anrestors changed from human form to the dust of which they were created ; It means the blithe fields where childhood's niimiv ihivs nassed Into the saddening memo ries of age ; of the scenes and the st ruggles of earlier man and womanhood. These, these !iwnrlnt Inns arc only dear to the titled and nnvlleced classes. But In this country, this u nil niir.! It Is all mine. It Is all yours, For. under the Constitution of the United states, lot ' von have been bom where you mn v nea th the broad folds of our flag, or, Ifvmi hnve boon born bevond the limits of our country, mid have been naturalized, you nn. Mititi.Ml to All the nrlvllics ami Immu nities of a citizen of each and every State. If vou ar n native orTonnesso and desire to go to Louisiana or to Maine, to Michigan, Oro- "nn. Texas. Callforn la. to Ohio or reunsyi 3 ! ' . ... . , U. ...... 1. vania, or to any oi tne central ciivi, j.ju uv not leave your home ; aim nt tuc cuu ot a vear. ns niovlded bv tho limitation ot the State Constitution, yon become, by virtue of our National Constitution, a cuuen. mo narrow Confederacy. boumled by the Foto- nn. I tlm Hurt ni Invnrv. Metis Vnll In: , Illt.V .,1... ...V ...IV VI i .- . 'and when our flag floats over the. Russian Possessions, you may, if you see fit, turn your attention to the ice trade or the catching of walrasses, and take up your home as an American citizen there. Laughter and applause. If you do, I have a suggestion to make ; that is, that you take a great big American tlag, and hang it on the North Pole, a point over which it will some day inevitably float. Applause. No Confederacy of disunion, aud destined to further disintegration, binds your rights. The Republican party of the country is the party at once of Union and liberty ; of liberty, becausa they believe with the distinguished hero of Tenuessee, Andrew Jackson, that " the Federal Union must aud shall be pr'iserved;'' applause ; of liberty, because they believe in the perfect and absolute enfranchisement of the humblest child born in the commonwealth, or brought into it by immigration ; and they give to each of you a special Interest in your country, believing that Democratic iastitutious can only be maintained by securing to labor Its just reward, to enterprise Its just return. The Republican Earty during the administration of Abraham incoln, (God bless him l' while you of the State of Tennessee were regarded as out of the Union, passed a Homestead bill. We own, you know, I was about to say countless millions of acres of public lands, and the Rudical party, as the Southern leaders are pleased to call it and I gladly accept the title myself, for a radical Is- a man who goes to tlie root of a thing, and I believe that the Republican party has gone right there, to the root, and is therefore justly to be called the Radical party. Applause. That party, call it by what name you may, has provided by law that any one ot you young, unmarried men may go upon eighty acres of tlie public lands, aud have It surveyed, and reside upon it for Ave years, and then pay about ten dollars for the cost of surveying and making the title, and this eighty acres- shall be your. Colored men and while men I if you are poor and fall to become independent landowners and farmers, It is your own fault. There is your land ; go and possess yourself, and the broad flag of a great nation will float over you ; and that uatiou will see that none shall molest or make you afraid, while you sit under your own vine and fig-tree. But I think I hear some young man say, "1 cannot go, because I have learned already to love Mary." Laughter. Well, bless your innocent soul! that difficulty is of easy solution. Get the parson to tie tlie knot between you and Mary, and your eighty acres becomes one hundred and twenty, by virtue of the fact that you take to you a wife. Applause. If that won't do, get Mary's father to go and settle oh the adjoining 120 acres ; and if he be a poor man, aud ha3 verified the maxim, "A fool for luck aud a poor man for children," the law makes provision for each of the chickens. So if the family be a large one, you will have a tolerably large sized plantation on which to reap the fruits of your industry. You see what these little words ''Our Country," mean to the American citizen, and you may see why I take possible exceptions to one of the planks in a platform I read to-day lu one of your Memphis papers. It was In sense and substance this : Against tlie repudiation ol any honest debt, or for the payment of any honest debt. I forget which. If that means i'or tlie payment of every lionet debt lawfully contracted, I respond to It heartily, and say to the .frcfmer that at least lu one 'point he and I agree. But If it mean, that a debt contracted for the support of the army and navy, for the overthrow of the Gov- rnment oi the country, either oy tne so-ailed Confederacy, or by a State making an lenient of that Confederacy, then I dispute he proposition. These debts were not prop erly created; these debts are not legally blu'ding ; they are not even debts of honor, and were extinguished by tne surrender or the armies of the Confederacy, when all Con federate property aud all Confederate State property became by act and law the property of the United States ; and It cannot oe that while the United States was entitled, as the British Courts have decided, to the property of the Confederate States and the Confederacy, that honor or law requires the pay ment or dents contracted oy euner oi mese States or the Confederacy at large, nor should they be. For Instance, should Alabama, not to speak of your own State, pay a debt Contracted bv the bastard State known as the Confederate State of Alabama 1! W ho contracted these debts ? Why. there are scarce ly five citizens to tlie square mils In some of these States ; for Instance, 'lexas. on may want to go to either ot these states, l ins principle being carried out, you will find that the laud given to vou under the Homestead law shalfbe taxed ; first, for the State; secondly, for the General, Government, and, thirdly, to pay a debt contracted in a war which swept away llieir nroincrs, ineir kuis-meu and their neighbors by the thousands and tens of thousands. No, that canuot be. This land, from ocean to ocean, from the lakes to the gulf, must be frcj from alt taxation, except that which Is necessary to the support of the State and General Govern ments. This hroatl lami must Know no ouier taxation than this. And that brings me. my friends, face to face with a question I Hud you are discussing here In the South. I loitered I did not do It oluntarlly It was because the train aia not muke the connection, and wo lost several hours at the Confederate cross-roads. Laugh ter. I saw Nasby there. I saw him take a poor euloreu man up to urmu. uv, George, what wm youniKcr "huimj, said George, lou know that .asuy nas received Randall's letter, saying that the negro must be conciliated, cost what It may. i no bar-keeper had thu decanter In his hand, aud said sharply, lu a chlvalric tone, "laKoou your hat, Ueorgo i neorge iouk. u uai. 'the bar-keener had no objectlou to dealing out the fluid and taking the change; theouly oldectlon was giving U to him with his hat on. 1 say I loitered there three hours. I found tho constant topic In conversation was that the people would lie getting along wonderfully weil.lf the Government did not take cvcrvtl'ilng In" taxes; mid that even the darkles, though they could not take care ofthem-m-iva without their masters, might possibly got along If It were not for that Infernal two per cent, tax on coltou. I took thy liberty to suggest that perhaps it was uecessary v..ii. ves." said thev. "some taxi necessary, but they need not take all the poor darkey owns." Wonderful sympathy for tlie darkey! Rnndull letter has been very eillcaetous. tint a wnr.l or two about the cotton (ax lilti. to look In the face of colored men Many whom I met on the route here never knew me personally, although they had heard my ;m:ne. Nevertheless they grasped my hand with a hearty human grasp. Some of ym have been in the habit of looking upon" ther with contempt, but I feel thVnkrul to God, who inspire! me to tke up the battle of four millions of voiceless people. They will pardou me for dealing in the phrases which, from tlie lips of others, We insults ; for you know, when there were but few to plead j'our eatfso, I breasted the storm of contumely, and told the proudest of the people among whom I lived, thvx in the poorest slaves on the Southern plantations I saw notMng less than ttiou and women. And it amused ine no little to hear the excessive sympathy of the habitues of the cross-roads, expressed for the colored man upon the subject of tho otton tax.' I want, therefore, to go home to his manhood upon that question. England and France gave tO'the Confederacy, the cornerstone of which-was slavery, their sympathy, and all" the aid they could without Involving themjelvcs in actual war, and I am, for taxing France and Euglaud wherever I can do it uutltr the Constitution. Great and prolonged applause. There are some things they have to buy from America. They have to buy our tobacco; they must look to us for petroleum, crude and refined, and for cotton ; and I am isady to pay a higher price for so much cottoa goods as myself and famliy may consume, or for so much tobacco as I may chew or smoke, when I am conscious that through these taxes I am relieving the citizens alike of Pennsylvania aud Tenuessee of so much taxation, and imposing it on Johnny Bull and Johnny Crapeau. Applause. Where was the sympathy of, tlie slaveholder with the negro when he took all their toil, uud sold their babe, like cattle, at the shambles ? Great applause. Again I heard tiiem say, "these Radicals have no sympathy with tlie lower classes! no sympathy with tlie colored man, or they would give to thein what we mean to give, the right to hold oltice and sit on juries." Do they mean to do it? If they do, in God's name why did they not do it lu the past eighty years V For that length of time, except at brief periods, they governed alike, the the General and State governments. Let me ask the oldest colored man present whether they ever invited him to sit in the jury-box? Let me ask you all what offices, they offered to confer upon the colored man? A dozen voices, in different parts of the house, cried "None! none! none!" and one voice said "Leftwich." Laughter. . If I remember rightly, in 1790, aud from that time down to 1S33, the free-colored man was a vote lu Tenuessee. Was ho ever asked by the Democratic party to take a seat in the jury-box ? Voices : "No, never." Was he asked to, accept office V The hand of God is on the plow, aud He means to turn and overturn until justice shall be meted out to all. And when the ballot was restored to your liauds, numbering as you do In this State over three hundred thousand, the sure pledge was given you that the jury-box and official position must come to you, depending on your merits. Both parties are already bidding for your votes, aud I as a Northern man, who was your friend when but lew dared to advocate your rights, sy to you, "do not be cajoled ; tjiiink for yourselves; vote as you .fought during, tlie tMr.for the Union!" Great applause. Now, my friends, this war was not begun for the establishment of freedom. Its inauguration was not ascribable to the people of the North. The good book tells us that He who controls tlie destinies of nations, can make tlie wrath of man praise him. He sees, as man does not, the ond from the beginning ; and it seems to me that this was Ills war. I do not know why It Is, but our greatest blessiugs come to us through suffering. What anguish, what physical suffering, how much does tlie first smile that plays over the unconscious features of the slceplug Infant repay Its mother ? Is it not through the garden of agony and the cross of Calvary that we reach our highest and surest hopes Is uot the road to eternal rest and bliss through the storm of war, the terrors of shipwreck, or the slow agony with which the strong man parts with his life on the sick bed ! His chlcfestand highest blessings must still come to him cither through suffering or vicarious endurance. So the great enfranchisement of our country has been' wrought out by God through a period of suffering. . . You were told that during tho war 'the North was not suffering ; that the Southern armies were meeting fresh hordes of Germans and Irish, and others imported from foreign hinds to tight our battles. You have probably been "disabused on that polut. If not, permit me to tell yon that there Is scarcely a home In the North in which there Is not an empty plate at the table and vacant chair at the hearth-side. When tho traitorous guns tired on Fort Sumter, and Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand men. tho plow In the bauds of the owner stood still In the furrow, the merchant's desk was deserted, the workshop lost its hum of busy Industry, and tho college halls were left vacant. Professors- led youths of highest promise, and of rarest prospect, under the heavy knapsack nml the musket, not to fields of fame, but crowded In common to the rank and file cf that great army that suffered as you suffered. Your bravest met our bravest, to suffer for the great wrong of two centuries, the great inconsistency of havintr, while we oppressed and couuted as nought, before tho State and God, for millions of human beings, and hold ing practically the great national He, that we believed all men equal, whllo falling to remember the woes of those who still tolled on at unrequited labor, praying to a Just God to do unto ns as wo do unto others ; lying as a uatiou in our intercourse wun turn it: whom wo live, move and have our .being. This was Ills war, to purge that wrong. I remember how, to avoid it, the North yielded point after point, until further opneesslon would have been our enslavement. , - Had, my fellow-citizens, the ..teachings of the great framcrs of our Government 'ben remembered by the North, aud adhered to by those of the South, this war would hate beou Impossible. Wheu, In 1778, the Congress of the United States, or rather the Convention which met for tho framing of the articles of confederation, was In session, fouth Carolina desired to protect slavery, and proposed to Insert the word "vjhltc" before freenieu. lu the clause regulating suffrage. In that Convention Uicy voted, not by Individual members, but byStatcs. Eleven States were represented. Eight States voted njalnsf Inserting the word "white," and consequently retaining suffrage to the colored man. Soiitlx

nn UNA: VOL. XXIX. COLUMBUS, OHIO: TUESDAY, MAY' 14, 1867. NO. 264. JOB L. TELEGRAPHIC. j REPORTED FOR THE JOURNAL. FOREIGN NEWS. 15 V TltE ATLANTIC CABLE. King of Prussia 10 Visit Paris. , , Berlix, May 13. It is announced that the King of, Prussia will visit Paris during the summer, in company with the Emperor of Russia. IrouClad Arrived. 1 ( Cherbourg, May 13. Four iren-clads of the French fleet arrived this morning from the Gulf of Mexico. Lord Lvons Ambassador to Paris. London, May 13 Eve. Lord Lyons, formerly Minister to the United States has been appointed to succeed Earl Cowley as Amttassador of Great Britain to Paris. v ':,' ' ' " Funeral of Gov. Wright. ' . , ., , ,' Berlin, May 13, Eve. ' The funeral of the late American Minister, Gov. Wright, took place to-day, and was attended by all American residents and visitors here, aud a large number of citizens. , ' ! 31 Y STEA31E11. Extract from the Speech of the Fenian, ,i i Burke, after his Conviction. ; .. New York, May 13. The steamer City of New York, from Liverpool, via Q-.ieenstown the 2d, arrived today. . - The following U an extract from the speech of the Fenian', Burkeafter his conviction: "It is not my desire now, my Lords, to give utterance to one word against the verdict which has been pronounced upon me." But fully conscious that my honor as a man has never been impugned, I am fully conscious that I can go to my grave with a name and character unsullied." . "lean only say this: that these parties, actuated by a dejlre either for their own aggrandizement or to save their own paltry, miserable live, have pandered to the appetiteif I may so speak of Justice ; aud iny life shall be the forfeit. "Fully convinced and satisfied of the righteousness of my every act in connection with the late revolutionary movement in Ireland, I have nothing to recall ; nothing that I would not do again; nothing that would bring the blush of shame to mantle my brow. My conduct aud career, here and In America, if you like, as a soldier, are before you; and even in tills, in my hour of trial, I feel conscious of having lived an honest man, and I will die believing that if I have given my life to give freedom and liberty to the land of my birth, I have done only that which every Irishman, and every man, whose squl throbs with feelings of liberty, should do. .. "I seek hot the death of a martyr, but if It is the will of an Almighty aud Omnipotent God that my devotion for the land of my birth should be tested at the scaflbld, I am willing there to die lu defense of the right of men to be free to give the right to an oppressed people to throw off the yoke of thraldom.I nmjaii Irishman by birth, an American 'by adoption by nature a lover of freedom, and an enemy to the power that holds my native land in the bonds of tyranny. It has been so often admitted that the oppressed have n right to throw off the yoke of oppressioneven by English statesmeu that I deem it unnecessary to more than advert to the fact here. "Ireland's children are not, never were, and never will be, willing or submissive slaves, and so long as England's flag covers one inch of Irish soli so long will they believe It to be a divine right to conspire and devise means to hurl down its power and erect in its stead a God-like structure of self-government." MEXICO. l,iiU't.t Mexican cws Vera Cruz Closely HesteRedGlly of Mexico )v peeled to Capitulate. Baltimore, May 13. 1 he Sun publishes the following letter irom us special-correspondent In Havana! The English West India mall stcamar arrived from Vera Cruz on the 5th Inst., but brings neither papers nor letters.. Vera Cruz was still closely besieged bv the Liberals, who were using their only available siege piece with little effect, as1 onlv some few house had been injured, aud no lives lost. I here was no probability of the Liberals taking the city, unless the Imperial Generals should disagree among themselves, causing a surretniur. NcKness among the H-siegcr Is assuming alarming prop tioiis. Over 250 are in hospital. The City of Mexico Is invested bv Diaz, it is the luteutlou ot Marquez to defend the city ut. ull hazards The bcslcplnir force numbers ubont 13,000, and receives additions winy, i he fall of the city Is considered cer tain, as hunger will soon compel the besieged MARYLAND. " y A Falso Assertion. ' " Baltimore, May 13.',', It is now definitely usserled that no such action by the late Cleveland Hiiiimn.i r.,i.. veiitiim relative to pre-paid lrelght over the ll.ilttiimni A. IV I.. IV. il i .?. .... ,.,.........-.. . ik.uuuuii, us rvporieu in the newspapers, ever took place lu that body. The report originated in the desire of certalu parties to compel the Baltimore & Ohio Ball-road to abandon Its policy of a fast freight 'ine to the West. . washingtonspecials. Arrested on Charge of Embezzlement. ' i - ' ' New. York. May 13. The Herald's Washington special says: W. B. Marsh, President of the Bank of Lexington, N. C, ond E. D. Hampton, one of tlie Directors, were taken to Salisbury on Tuesday; by order of Gen. Sickles, under the charge of embezz'iug the specie of the bank above named, about the time of the surrender of the rebel Gen. Johnston. The complaint was made by J. W.Thomas and others. The parties have had a hearing, and the etl-dence has been forwarded to' Gen. Sickles. The accused will remain in custody of the military until the General is heard from. , ' Further from the Davli Trial. The Times' Washington special says : It is understood that the prosecuting officers have finally agreed that 1h the event of the trial of Davis being set for some future day, as is likely, he shall be discharged on his own recognizance. . The Injunction Cases False Report. The Tribune's special says the decision of the Supreme Court, in the Georgia and Mississippi injunction cases, will be given today, aud it is said the petitions will be unaa-mously dismissed. The reported execution of two Union soldiers in the Edgefield district, South Carolina, by a posse of citizens, is found, on investigation to be untrus. VIRGINIA. liossip About the Davis Trial. New York, May 13. The Times's Richmond special says : After Jett'erson Davis is re-arrested on the bench warrant, under the Norfolk indictment, the Government counsel will announce that they are not ready for trial under the indictment, and will move for the postponement of the case until the next term of the Circuit Court, which will be in No'vember. Davis's counsel will thon submit a motion to admit bail : but Judge Underwood now acts as if he will not receive bail, but will remand the prisoner to Llbby prison. Jeff. Davis Released on Bail. The United States Court was packed this morning. A military guard was placed around it, and a strong police force Inside. About twenty ladles were among the spectators ; also 50 negroes. At 11 o'clock Davis was brought In and took a seat next to the prisoner's box with Gen. Burtou and the U. S. Marshal. A servant accompanied hlra. Davis sitting by an open window, remarked "It Is a little cold, Isn't It?" and he was removed to a seat near his counsel In front of the Judge. Gen. Burton's return of the writ of haben enrptts was read, and the Judge complimented Gen. Burton in obeying the laws and relieved him of the custody of Davis, and the Marshal Immediately served on him a bench warrant to answer the Norfolk Indictment. Mr. O'Connor spoke of Mr. Davis's long Imprisonment and feeble health, ' and aske'l that he be bailed, there being no opposition on the part of the prosecution, who fixed the amount or ball at $10,000. The Judge announced his readines to accept the bail ; stating at the same time that the responsibility of delay in bringing the case into court rested upon the Government, and not upon the District Attorney. Me also said that one-half of the amount of the bail should be given by persons residing In the State or Virginia. The sureties then came forward, Horace Greeley being among the first, was followed by Mr. Schell, of N. Y., Mr. Jackson, of Philadelphia, and others. A number ot gen tlemen residing in Virginia, offered their names as bail. Mr. Davis was congratulated by several friends, but there was no demon stration or noise of any kind. After giving bail to appear at the November term of Court, Mr. Davis was then taken In a coach to the Spotts wood House. ALABAMA. Senator Wilson's Speeches lu the South. New York, May 1U. The Herald's Montgomery, Ala., special says Senator Wilson, on his trip from Atlan ta, addressed several white audiences, where he wis severely catechised about certain customs in the North, but was able to make suitable replies to all questions. On Saturday he addressed an audleucc of the usual mixed character. lie was introduced by Gen. Swaync, and in the course of his speech made no reference whatever to confiscation. He was replied to by a prominent lawyer named Clanton, formerly a rebel general, who urged, lu his argument, that the negro did not owe his freedom to the Republican party that President Lincoln had promised the rebellious South two years after the commencement of the war that their slaves would be undisturbed it they would return to the Unlou. After the speeches, Gen. Swayne called for the sense of the colored people as to who the sense ot tlie coloreu people as to who . , , , , . , .. i were Tor the Republican' party, and the Jf the I nlted States by virtue ot recent leg-response was a unanimous animation. ' carrying Into clleet he hi In r o la - MASSACHUSETTS. A Vile Scoundrel. Boston, May 13. Rev. Sercuo Howe, who for six years lins been pastor of the Baptist Church and Society In Abdlngton, has recently been detected In familiarities of the most gross and shocking charcter, with many of the children, of both sexes, belonging' to his congregation. Ho was charged with criminal practices nt a meeting of the Church on Saturday evening last. He mndeno denial. He was threatened with a rldiym a rail by the young men of the place. Howe was a member of the Legislature, and sent In his resignation to-day, which was accepted, after debate, In secret session. ' '' ; KENTUCKY. ',' " , , Death of Bishop I.avcllle.- ' ' ,'. . , , , " LonsviLLH, May 13. ' Bishop Lavclllo,' of thclRomau Catholic Church, died at Burdstown, Ky., Saturday evening, after t tong and painful Illness. Ills rcmaluswIU, arrive to-day and Ins laid in state at the. Cathedral until 3 P. M. to-morrow, when the funeral ceremonies take place. jrELKORAPU ok StOllTH TAat.) From the Memphis Tost, May 8. -' The Mass Meeting Last Night. Great Outpouring of the People to Welcome Hon. W. D. Kelley. Loyal Tennessee Kespondsto the Loyal Sentiment of the North. The Capacious Opera-IIouse Filled to Overflowing. Free Speech Maintained, and the South Indeed made Free. The largest assemblage perhaps which has met in Memphis since the war, gathered at tne Greenlaw Opera-house, last night, called together by the announcement that Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, of Philadelphia, would address his fellow-citizens of Tennessee on the political questions of the clay. In a few minutes after the doors were opened, the capacious building was filled to overflowing. Quite a number of ladies occupied seats in the dress circle. The family circle was crowded with colored persons, many of whom also were In other parts of the house, and several of them, members o; the Republican County Committee, occupied seats on the stage. A line brass baud in the balcony in front of the building, played patriotic aud stirring airs previous to the commencement of Judge Kel-ley's speech. The stage was hung with fligs, and the speaker's stand draped with a splendid star-spangled banner. Soon after 8 o'clock, Judge Kelley entered, escorted by the County Committee and other Republicans, and was greeted with applause. Hon. Barbour Lewis, Chairman of the County Committee, then Introduced Judge Kelley to the meeting. He proceeded to speak as follows : My Fellow-Citizens: I don't know which to do first, whether to congratulate you upon your enfranchisement, or to thank you for having made me free throughout the broad extent of my country. Perhaps it would be well that we should congratulate each other. You, fellow-citizens of Tennessee, have, by the terrible scourge of war,' been made free. You of the State of Tennessee, and of the United States, wearing the livery of Afrlc's burning sun, have also been made free by the terrible scourge of war ; and I, born i'u what was known as a free State, having grown to manhood there, and having enjoyed such honors as my townsmen could confer upon me, was still a bondman in my native State. I believed from my youth and upwards in the great doctrine of the Declaration of Independence. I believed for so my mother taught me from the Christian guide that all men are born equal, and should stand before the institutions of a Christian State as they stand before God, the Father of all. Applause. I believed thus, and having a will of my own to express my own thoughts, it never before was safe forme to cross the Potomac, or descend the grand river which makes your cl'.y a sure location of one of America's grandest commercial and manufacturing emporiums. This South ern clime was not healthful for men who believed as I did. It grew too many grape vines, and they had been pervcrte'l to improper purposes. But, thank God, the day has come when every American citizen can traverse his country, and carry with him, not only his truuk and his clothing, out ills conscience and his honest convictions, great applause, and express them wherever he goes. In the entoyment of this new-found right, my fellow-citizens, I have come to counsel with vou upon that greatest of all subjects, Ovr Country, and Its future welfare, and that which must promote its welfare, the guaranteeing, by proper institutions, the daily practice of a just liberty to the Individual man, consistent with the general welfare of this, our country. Our country is my theme. Two little words three little syla-bles a phrase dear to the heart of every man, whether born upon the broad and sunny savannas of the South, or upon the gran ite hills of the t-ast; among inegoiuensioj:es ot the Pacific, or amidst the most sterile spot In the world; whether born In our country, or upon the banks of the Lilly or the Shannon, the Tiber or the Po, the Rhine or any other great river; whether born upon the broad nlateau or mountain side or top, these little words, our country, arc dear to the heart of evcrv man. But to no man, born wherever he may be, in poverty or allluencc, do they signify so much ns when ntterea oy an American citizen. Our country, now free to all, what Is It? Whv.lt Is the grandest mortal heritage ever given to man. It has extended from bevond the sunny South Sen, over whose surface the summer breeze ever lingers, to that grand series or winter lakes over which the winds of March and Novem ber howl the requiem of gallant navies. And from the rock-bound Atlantic, surging ever nualnst Its coast.across to the quiet and sleenliig ocean of the West. This is all our country; and by virtue ol the Constitution cut powers of that Constitution, every man, woman and ehiul nas a personal imeixM in it nil. I A voice. " That's so." and applause. To the citizen of every other country, "Our Country" means where the man was boru and the child cradled; It means the spot where his anrestors changed from human form to the dust of which they were created ; It means the blithe fields where childhood's niimiv ihivs nassed Into the saddening memo ries of age ; of the scenes and the st ruggles of earlier man and womanhood. These, these !iwnrlnt Inns arc only dear to the titled and nnvlleced classes. But In this country, this u nil niir.! It Is all mine. It Is all yours, For. under the Constitution of the United states, lot ' von have been bom where you mn v nea th the broad folds of our flag, or, Ifvmi hnve boon born bevond the limits of our country, mid have been naturalized, you nn. Mititi.Ml to All the nrlvllics ami Immu nities of a citizen of each and every State. If vou ar n native orTonnesso and desire to go to Louisiana or to Maine, to Michigan, Oro- "nn. Texas. Callforn la. to Ohio or reunsyi 3 ! ' . ... . , U. ...... 1. vania, or to any oi tne central ciivi, j.ju uv not leave your home ; aim nt tuc cuu ot a vear. ns niovlded bv tho limitation ot the State Constitution, yon become, by virtue of our National Constitution, a cuuen. mo narrow Confederacy. boumled by the Foto- nn. I tlm Hurt ni Invnrv. Metis Vnll In: , Illt.V .,1... ...V ...IV VI i .- . 'and when our flag floats over the. Russian Possessions, you may, if you see fit, turn your attention to the ice trade or the catching of walrasses, and take up your home as an American citizen there. Laughter and applause. If you do, I have a suggestion to make ; that is, that you take a great big American tlag, and hang it on the North Pole, a point over which it will some day inevitably float. Applause. No Confederacy of disunion, aud destined to further disintegration, binds your rights. The Republican party of the country is the party at once of Union and liberty ; of liberty, becausa they believe with the distinguished hero of Tenuessee, Andrew Jackson, that " the Federal Union must aud shall be pr'iserved;'' applause ; of liberty, because they believe in the perfect and absolute enfranchisement of the humblest child born in the commonwealth, or brought into it by immigration ; and they give to each of you a special Interest in your country, believing that Democratic iastitutious can only be maintained by securing to labor Its just reward, to enterprise Its just return. The Republican Earty during the administration of Abraham incoln, (God bless him l' while you of the State of Tennessee were regarded as out of the Union, passed a Homestead bill. We own, you know, I was about to say countless millions of acres of public lands, and the Rudical party, as the Southern leaders are pleased to call it and I gladly accept the title myself, for a radical Is- a man who goes to tlie root of a thing, and I believe that the Republican party has gone right there, to the root, and is therefore justly to be called the Radical party. Applause. That party, call it by what name you may, has provided by law that any one ot you young, unmarried men may go upon eighty acres of tlie public lands, aud have It surveyed, and reside upon it for Ave years, and then pay about ten dollars for the cost of surveying and making the title, and this eighty acres- shall be your. Colored men and while men I if you are poor and fall to become independent landowners and farmers, It is your own fault. There is your land ; go and possess yourself, and the broad flag of a great nation will float over you ; and that uatiou will see that none shall molest or make you afraid, while you sit under your own vine and fig-tree. But I think I hear some young man say, "1 cannot go, because I have learned already to love Mary." Laughter. Well, bless your innocent soul! that difficulty is of easy solution. Get the parson to tie tlie knot between you and Mary, and your eighty acres becomes one hundred and twenty, by virtue of the fact that you take to you a wife. Applause. If that won't do, get Mary's father to go and settle oh the adjoining 120 acres ; and if he be a poor man, aud ha3 verified the maxim, "A fool for luck aud a poor man for children," the law makes provision for each of the chickens. So if the family be a large one, you will have a tolerably large sized plantation on which to reap the fruits of your industry. You see what these little words ''Our Country," mean to the American citizen, and you may see why I take possible exceptions to one of the planks in a platform I read to-day lu one of your Memphis papers. It was In sense and substance this : Against tlie repudiation ol any honest debt, or for the payment of any honest debt. I forget which. If that means i'or tlie payment of every lionet debt lawfully contracted, I respond to It heartily, and say to the .frcfmer that at least lu one 'point he and I agree. But If it mean, that a debt contracted for the support of the army and navy, for the overthrow of the Gov- rnment oi the country, either oy tne so-ailed Confederacy, or by a State making an lenient of that Confederacy, then I dispute he proposition. These debts were not prop erly created; these debts are not legally blu'ding ; they are not even debts of honor, and were extinguished by tne surrender or the armies of the Confederacy, when all Con federate property aud all Confederate State property became by act and law the property of the United States ; and It cannot oe that while the United States was entitled, as the British Courts have decided, to the property of the Confederate States and the Confederacy, that honor or law requires the pay ment or dents contracted oy euner oi mese States or the Confederacy at large, nor should they be. For Instance, should Alabama, not to speak of your own State, pay a debt Contracted bv the bastard State known as the Confederate State of Alabama 1! W ho contracted these debts ? Why. there are scarce ly five citizens to tlie square mils In some of these States ; for Instance, 'lexas. on may want to go to either ot these states, l ins principle being carried out, you will find that the laud given to vou under the Homestead law shalfbe taxed ; first, for the State; secondly, for the General, Government, and, thirdly, to pay a debt contracted in a war which swept away llieir nroincrs, ineir kuis-meu and their neighbors by the thousands and tens of thousands. No, that canuot be. This land, from ocean to ocean, from the lakes to the gulf, must be frcj from alt taxation, except that which Is necessary to the support of the State and General Govern ments. This hroatl lami must Know no ouier taxation than this. And that brings me. my friends, face to face with a question I Hud you are discussing here In the South. I loitered I did not do It oluntarlly It was because the train aia not muke the connection, and wo lost several hours at the Confederate cross-roads. Laugh ter. I saw Nasby there. I saw him take a poor euloreu man up to urmu. uv, George, what wm youniKcr "huimj, said George, lou know that .asuy nas received Randall's letter, saying that the negro must be conciliated, cost what It may. i no bar-keeper had thu decanter In his hand, aud said sharply, lu a chlvalric tone, "laKoou your hat, Ueorgo i neorge iouk. u uai. 'the bar-keener had no objectlou to dealing out the fluid and taking the change; theouly oldectlon was giving U to him with his hat on. 1 say I loitered there three hours. I found tho constant topic In conversation was that the people would lie getting along wonderfully weil.lf the Government did not take cvcrvtl'ilng In" taxes; mid that even the darkles, though they could not take care ofthem-m-iva without their masters, might possibly got along If It were not for that Infernal two per cent, tax on coltou. I took thy liberty to suggest that perhaps it was uecessary v..ii. ves." said thev. "some taxi necessary, but they need not take all the poor darkey owns." Wonderful sympathy for tlie darkey! Rnndull letter has been very eillcaetous. tint a wnr.l or two about the cotton (ax lilti. to look In the face of colored men Many whom I met on the route here never knew me personally, although they had heard my ;m:ne. Nevertheless they grasped my hand with a hearty human grasp. Some of ym have been in the habit of looking upon" ther with contempt, but I feel thVnkrul to God, who inspire! me to tke up the battle of four millions of voiceless people. They will pardou me for dealing in the phrases which, from tlie lips of others, We insults ; for you know, when there were but few to plead j'our eatfso, I breasted the storm of contumely, and told the proudest of the people among whom I lived, thvx in the poorest slaves on the Southern plantations I saw notMng less than ttiou and women. And it amused ine no little to hear the excessive sympathy of the habitues of the cross-roads, expressed for the colored man upon the subject of tho otton tax.' I want, therefore, to go home to his manhood upon that question. England and France gave tO'the Confederacy, the cornerstone of which-was slavery, their sympathy, and all" the aid they could without Involving themjelvcs in actual war, and I am, for taxing France and Euglaud wherever I can do it uutltr the Constitution. Great and prolonged applause. There are some things they have to buy from America. They have to buy our tobacco; they must look to us for petroleum, crude and refined, and for cotton ; and I am isady to pay a higher price for so much cottoa goods as myself and famliy may consume, or for so much tobacco as I may chew or smoke, when I am conscious that through these taxes I am relieving the citizens alike of Pennsylvania aud Tenuessee of so much taxation, and imposing it on Johnny Bull and Johnny Crapeau. Applause. Where was the sympathy of, tlie slaveholder with the negro when he took all their toil, uud sold their babe, like cattle, at the shambles ? Great applause. Again I heard tiiem say, "these Radicals have no sympathy with tlie lower classes! no sympathy with tlie colored man, or they would give to thein what we mean to give, the right to hold oltice and sit on juries." Do they mean to do it? If they do, in God's name why did they not do it lu the past eighty years V For that length of time, except at brief periods, they governed alike, the the General and State governments. Let me ask the oldest colored man present whether they ever invited him to sit in the jury-box? Let me ask you all what offices, they offered to confer upon the colored man? A dozen voices, in different parts of the house, cried "None! none! none!" and one voice said "Leftwich." Laughter. . If I remember rightly, in 1790, aud from that time down to 1S33, the free-colored man was a vote lu Tenuessee. Was ho ever asked by the Democratic party to take a seat in the jury-box ? Voices : "No, never." Was he asked to, accept office V The hand of God is on the plow, aud He means to turn and overturn until justice shall be meted out to all. And when the ballot was restored to your liauds, numbering as you do In this State over three hundred thousand, the sure pledge was given you that the jury-box and official position must come to you, depending on your merits. Both parties are already bidding for your votes, aud I as a Northern man, who was your friend when but lew dared to advocate your rights, sy to you, "do not be cajoled ; tjiiink for yourselves; vote as you .fought during, tlie tMr.for the Union!" Great applause. Now, my friends, this war was not begun for the establishment of freedom. Its inauguration was not ascribable to the people of the North. The good book tells us that He who controls tlie destinies of nations, can make tlie wrath of man praise him. He sees, as man does not, the ond from the beginning ; and it seems to me that this was Ills war. I do not know why It Is, but our greatest blessiugs come to us through suffering. What anguish, what physical suffering, how much does tlie first smile that plays over the unconscious features of the slceplug Infant repay Its mother ? Is it not through the garden of agony and the cross of Calvary that we reach our highest and surest hopes Is uot the road to eternal rest and bliss through the storm of war, the terrors of shipwreck, or the slow agony with which the strong man parts with his life on the sick bed ! His chlcfestand highest blessings must still come to him cither through suffering or vicarious endurance. So the great enfranchisement of our country has been' wrought out by God through a period of suffering. . . You were told that during tho war 'the North was not suffering ; that the Southern armies were meeting fresh hordes of Germans and Irish, and others imported from foreign hinds to tight our battles. You have probably been "disabused on that polut. If not, permit me to tell yon that there Is scarcely a home In the North in which there Is not an empty plate at the table and vacant chair at the hearth-side. When tho traitorous guns tired on Fort Sumter, and Abraham Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand men. tho plow In the bauds of the owner stood still In the furrow, the merchant's desk was deserted, the workshop lost its hum of busy Industry, and tho college halls were left vacant. Professors- led youths of highest promise, and of rarest prospect, under the heavy knapsack nml the musket, not to fields of fame, but crowded In common to the rank and file cf that great army that suffered as you suffered. Your bravest met our bravest, to suffer for the great wrong of two centuries, the great inconsistency of havintr, while we oppressed and couuted as nought, before tho State and God, for millions of human beings, and hold ing practically the great national He, that we believed all men equal, whllo falling to remember the woes of those who still tolled on at unrequited labor, praying to a Just God to do unto ns as wo do unto others ; lying as a uatiou in our intercourse wun turn it: whom wo live, move and have our .being. This was Ills war, to purge that wrong. I remember how, to avoid it, the North yielded point after point, until further opneesslon would have been our enslavement. , - Had, my fellow-citizens, the ..teachings of the great framcrs of our Government 'ben remembered by the North, aud adhered to by those of the South, this war would hate beou Impossible. Wheu, In 1778, the Congress of the United States, or rather the Convention which met for tho framing of the articles of confederation, was In session, fouth Carolina desired to protect slavery, and proposed to Insert the word "vjhltc" before freenieu. lu the clause regulating suffrage. In that Convention Uicy voted, not by Individual members, but byStatcs. Eleven States were represented. Eight States voted njalnsf Inserting the word "white," and consequently retaining suffrage to the colored man. Soiitlx